Railway tie



L. SARGEANT RAILWAY PI 3 Filed June 19; 1923 Fl,- l. a A

* -5 S nt ('ltg u Patented Aug. 16, 1927.

ICE.

LEONARD SARGEANT, or rAIR 'oN r, wE's VIRGINIA.

'' RAILWAY TIE.

Application m June 19, 1923. Serial No. 646,405. I

This invention relates to improvements in railway ties equipped-with rail fastening devices and has for its object to provide a tie having such improved and simplified structural features as reduce its weight to the minimum and enhance its strength and rigidity thereby providing-a tie especially adapted for use in the construction of temporary or portable railway systems such,

for instance, as are largely used in coal mines and similar industrial plants.

A further object is the provision of a tie structure including essentially a tie and rail clamping and embracing clip, the tie part and clip being permanently fastened to gether by rivets or equivalent fastening de-,

vices and being substantially U-shaped in cross section, the U-shaped members being superposed and interfitted so as to provide a light and rigid construction.

In the accompanying drawing wherein an improved embodiment of the inventionis illustrated Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a tie constructed in accordance with the invention, a rail and rail clamping wedge being shown in section.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary top plan view of the end of the tie, the rail and wedge being removed.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional View through a section of railway track illustrat- 3; ing the tie in elevation.

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view through a rail and clamping wedge there- I for, illustratinga fragment of a modified type of tie in side elevation.

Fig. 6 is a View similar to Fig. 5illustrating a further modification of the tie.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the numeral 8 indicates a metallic tie having a relatively wide fiat body portion provided 15 with depending longitudinal flanges 9, thus providing a tie which is of inverted U-shape.

Adjacent each end of the tie is arranged a rail embracing clip 10 the flat metal por tion 11 of which is seated upon the top face of the tie 8 and the terminals 12 and 13 of which are turned inwardly toward the flat rail engaging portion 11.

The terminal 12 of the clip is so curved as to snugly embrace one edge of the base 14 of a track rail 15 while the bight poition of the other terminal 13 of the clip has a wider curvature than that of the terminal 12 and is adapted to receive a clamping wedge 16; which is adapted to be driven into the space between the terminal 13 and the web of the track rail 15 whereby to securely and removably clamp said rail in position in the clip 10.

The clip 10 in cross section is also of inverted U-shape and it is superposed above the tie 8. As clearly shown in Fig. 3 the material of the clip 10 is somewhat wider than that of the tie 8 whereby the latter may snugly fit between the flanges 17 of the clip.

To rigidly fasten the clip in position upon each end of the tie 8 a headed rivet '18 ispositioned through the contiguous clip and portions of the tie and the countersunk end 19 thereof is so arranged as to lie 7 directly below the base 14 of the track rail '15 whereby the weight of the latter is utilized to maintain the rivet in position.

The inter-fitting ofv the two U-shaped members forming the tie 8 and the clip 10 effectively prevents skewing of the clamps upon the terminals of the tie even in cases where the rivet 18 becomes loosened incident to prolonged use and this formation of the tie and clip further eliminates the tendency of these parts to move laterally relatively to one another.

In the modification of the invention illustrated-in Figure 5, the tie 8 is identical in construction with the one illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 but the clip, while similar in general shape to the clip 10 illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 is formed in two parts designated at 10* and 10 the parts being respectively secured to the metal or web portion of theU-shaped tie 8 by rivets 18 and 18.

In the modification of the invention illustrated in Fig. 6, only one rail base embracing clip 1O is riveted at 18 adjacent each end of the tie 8 the other portion of the rail brace embracing clip being constituted by the upwardly and inwardly turned terminal 20 of the tie.

In the modifications'of the invention illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 the cross sectional shape of the tie rail embracing clip and tie is U-shaped and'the same advantages as to strength andrigiditjy are obtained as in they form illustrated in *igs. 1 to 3. A further advantage in this arrangement consists in that the weightof the track rails is so applied as to maintain the tie in confinement between the spaced parallel flanges. of the clip.

What I claim is:

1. A rail tie comprising a tie proper, a clip attached to the tie near one end, said clip extending laterally over the tie and having flanges to embrace the tie, and a bent over end to embrace the flange on a rail, a loop on the other side of the rail from the clip and a Wedge block resting in the loop and against the Web of the rail.

2. A rail t1e comprlsing a tie proper, and

a clip extending the full Width of the tie, flanges on the clip extending over the sides of the tle, a rivet passed through the clip and tie With its head resting under the flange of a rail to prevent the rivet from Working out, a loop extending upwardly froni the tie and a Wedge block resting against the loop and the Web of a rail on the clip.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

LEONARD SARGE ANT. 

